Month: September 2011

  • How is WordPress Subversion Organized

    How is WordPress Subversion Organized

    There’s some confusion about how WordPress organizes it’s Subversion (SVN) repository. Most SVN repositories are organized into three main directories, as is best practice — trunk, tags, branches. The repository can be found at http://core.svn.wordpress.org/ and a primer on how to use SVN for WordPress development can be found on Mark’s blog and, for Windows,…

  • Rules for Entrepreneurs: Release Early and Often

    Rules for Entrepreneurs: Release Early and Often

    Last week, I wrote two articles outlining some philosophical ideas around entrepreneurship. This series of articles is all about giving away lessons I’ve learned throughout my five years as an entrepreneur in four different ventures. When you’re in the product business, you have to continually improve on your product. As soon as you hit version…

  • Rules for Entrepreneurs: Compete and Collaborate

    Rules for Entrepreneurs: Compete and Collaborate

    Photo by Roger Barker on Flickr. Google and Apple are not only competitors… they are collaborators. Indeed, Apple and Google both offer top level smartphones – The iPhone from Apple and the assortment of Android devices by Google (Google not only has its own phones but is the main proprietor of the Android open source…

  • Rules for Entrepreneurs: Do One Thing Well

    Rules for Entrepreneurs: Do One Thing Well

    Photo by bartb_pt on Flickr I have been an entrepreneur for just shy of 5 years full-time. Before that, I was engaged in entrepreneurial “things” for the previous 6 years. 4 companies. I am not a perfect entrepreneur and some would argue I’m not even a successful entrepreneur since I haven’t had a successful exit…

  • Obama or Rodgers?

    [polldaddy poll=5488284]